Towel-rack



(No Model.)

J. R'HUBER & G. L. MARVIN. TOWEL RAOK.

No.482,69. PatentedSept.20, 1892.

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JOHN F. HUBER AND GEORGE LEE MARVIN, OF CENTRAL CITY, NEBRASKA.

TOWEL-RAG K.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,869, dated September 20, 1892.

Application filed June 21, 1892- Serial No. 437,490- (No model.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN F. HUBER and GEORGE LEE MARVIN, citizens of the United States, residing at Central City, in the county of Merrick and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Towel-Rack, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in towelracks.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive and strong and durable towel-rack adapted to be readily attached to a stand or other supporting-surface.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a towel-rack constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly in section. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view.

Like numerals of reference indicatecorrespending parts in all the figures of the drawlngs.

1 designates a plate, which is constructed of suitable material, preferably sheet metal, and having its edges swaged and provided with a series of openings 2, adapted to receive the ends of asupporting-frame 3 and the ends of arms 4, and provided with openings 5, adapted for the reception of screws for securing the plate to a supporting-surface. The

arms 4 are L-shaped and are adapted to support towels, and are provided at their outer ends with balls 6 and have their inner ends threaded and provided with shoulders 7, which bear against the outer face of the rectangular base-plate 1,the inner threaded ends passing through the openings 2 and being secured to the plate by nuts 7", arranged on the inner face of the plate. The frame 3 is rectangular and is provided at its sides with inward bends 8 and has its ends threaded and provided with shoulders 9 and arranged in openings 2 and secured by nuts 10, arranged on the inner face of the plate, the body of the plate being raised by the swaged or bent edges to provide a space to receive the nuts. The L-shaped arms are adapted to be turned to either side and are supported in an approximately horizontal position by the supporting-frame.

It will be seen that the towel-rack is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction and is adapted to be readily secured to a supporting-surface.

l/Vhat we claim is- A towel-rack comprising the base -plate adapted to be secured toasupporting-snrface and provided with openings 2, a rectangular supporting-frame extendinghorizontally from the plate and having its sides bent inward at 8 and provided with shoulders and threaded and extending through openings 2, the L- shaped arms adapted to be supported in a horizontal position by the said frame and having their inner ends provided with shoulders and arranged in openings 2, and nuts arranged on the inner face of the plate and securing the arms and the frame to the same, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN F. HUBER. GEORGE LEE MARVIN. lVitne-sses:

W. G. KERR, F. OoRLIss. 

